調べる

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Verb inflections

Form	Affirmative	Negative
Present	調べる	調べない
Polite	調べます	調べません
Past	調べた	調べなかった
Polite + Past	調べました	調べませんでした
Te-form	調べて	調べなくて
Potential	調べられる	調べられない
Passive	調べられる	調べられない
Causative	調べさせる	調べさせない
Imperative	調べろ	調べるな

Handwriting

Example sentences

I look up the meaning of words in the dictionary.

失敗の原因を調べています。

We are investigating the cause of the failure.

辞書を引いて、言葉の意味を調べた。

I looked up the word in the dictionary to check its meaning.

この語の意味を辞書で調べた。

I looked up the meaning of this word in a dictionary.

この地名の由来を詳しく調べてみた。

I tried to look up the origin of this place name in detail.

最近はスマホで何でも調べることができる。

Nowadays, you can look up anything on a smartphone.

身体の各部位を詳しく調べる。

I will examine each part of the body in detail.

犯人の逃走経路を調べる。

Investigate the suspect's escape route.

論文を書くために、関連する文献を調べた。

I searched for related literature to write my thesis.

わからない言葉があったので、辞書を引いて意味を調べた。

Since there was a word I didn't know, I looked it up in a dictionary and checked its meaning.

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